Cummins, Julie. Flying Solo: How Ruth Elder Soared into America’s Heart. Illus. by Malene R. Laugesen. 2013. Unpaged. Roaring Brook Press, $17.99 (978-1-5964-3509-4). K-Gr.2
Gevinson, Tavi (Ed.). Rookie Yearbook Two. 2013. 348p. Drawn & Quarterly, $29.95 (978-1-7704-6148-2). Gr.7-up.
Global Fund for Children. Global Baby Girls. 2013. Unpaged. Charlesbridge Publishing, $6.95 (978-1-5808-9439-5). PreS.
Markel, Michelle. Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909. Illus. by Melissa Sweet. 2013. Unpaged. Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (978-0-0618-0442-7). K-Gr.4.
Molloy, Aimee. However Long the Night: Molly Melching’s Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph. 2013. 252p. HarperOne, $25.99 (978-0-0621-3276-5). Gr.10-up.
Mullenbach, Cheryl. Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II. 2013. 266p. Chicago Review Press, $19.95 (978-1-5697-6808-2). Gr.9-up.
Povich, Lynn. The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace. 2012. 249p. PublicAffairs, $25.99 (978-1-6103-9173-3). Gr.10-up.
Schnall, Marianne. What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? 2013. 386p. Seal Press, $17.00 (978-1-5800-5496-6). Gr.10-12.
Wishinsky, Frieda. Profiles: Freedom Heroines. 2012. 144p. Scholastic, $6.99 (978-0-5454-2518-6). Gr.4-6.
Yousafzai, Malala with Christina Lamb. I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. 2013. 327p. Little, Brown and Company, $26.00 (978-0-3163-2240-9). Gr.8-12.
A wonderful list. “Brave Girl” is especially relevant given the tragedies occuring in textile factories today. http://lostandfoundbooks.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/brave-girl-for-workers-everywhere/